The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as many trees were lost to illegal logging, drought and other causes, making 2020 a bad year for the butterflies. The government commission for natural protected areas said the butterflies’ […]
Almost 10 years after scientists discovered the first cracks, a huge iceberg broke off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Read more on Reuters.
The plaque outside the Durban Post Office, commemorating the speech given by the former British prime minister Winston Churchill when he was a war correspondent in Durban, has gone missing. Read more on IOL.
Singapore court sent UK man to prison for leaving his quarantine hotel room to see fiancée upstairs Read more on Business Insider.
To fight the censors in Big Tech, Polish officials have drafted a bill that will fine social media companies millions for censoring legal free speech. On February 1, 2021, the Polish Ministry of Justice issued a draft act on freedom of speech and social media. The legislation was originally proposed in December of last year […]
INDIA – A rooster named Raja will appear in an Indian court after he killed his owner with a knife while attempting to flee an illegal cockfight in southern India. The chicken was fitted with a knife when the man had tried to stop the bird from escaping when and he was struck in the […]
BEIJING – Die Chinese regering het Donderdag ontken dat hy van Amerikaanse diplomate verwag om anale Covid-19-toetse te ondergaan. Dié ontkenning kom nadat die Kanadees-Amerikaanse tydskrif Vice berig het talle diplomate oor dié prosedure gekla het. BEIJING (Reuters) – China’s foreign ministry denied on Thursday that U.S. diplomats in the country had been required to […]
NAMIBIA – A one-year-old girl drowned in a bucket of water while playing with other children at Omaambo village in Elim constituency, Omusati region around 16:50 on Friday. Read more on the Namibian.
KIMBERLEY – Kontantvloei by die Sol Plaatje-munisipaliteit het van ’n gemaklike drie maande se reserwes gekrimp tot minder as twee weke. Dit wek egter kommer of die munisipaliteit salarisse sal kan betaal. Donderdag tydens die indiening van die aanpassingsbegroting vir 2020/21 is dit aangedui dat “drastiese optrede” geneem sal moet word om likiditeit en volhoubaarheid […]